Date:         Wed, 30 Apr 97 09:55:34 EDT
From: Alan <DAVIDSON@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject:      Natl TA Conference Announcement (fwd)
To: essoc-l@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU, Ted <tmills@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
cc: socgrad@CSF.COLORADO.EDU, socgrad@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu
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As the heading says, I ought to publicize this far and wide.  (I.e.,
there is a possibility that for Uconn students, some money might be
available for these sorts of things from the Teaching Institute).
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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 11:37:06 -0700
From: nagps@netcom.com (NAGPS)
Subject:  Natl TA Conference Announcement
To: nagps-update@nagps.org
Errors-To: nagps-request@nagps.org

Dear Friends and Colleagues;

NAGPS is once again a sponsor of the National Conference on Education &
Employment of Graduate Teaching Assistants, scheduled for next November
at the University of Minnesota.  The conference is trying to reach out to
professional societies representing academic disciplines.  Could you
please forward this to your professional society with your request that
they participate?  Interested folks may contact NAGPS, or may contact Pat
Hutchings, part of the Planning Team, at the contact information below.
Thanks!

Kevin Boyer
NAGPS Executive Director


                               April, l997

TO:	Academic Colleagues in Professional Societies
	Graduate/Professional Students and Employees

FROM:	Planning Team, 6th Natl Conf on Education & Employment
	of Graduate Teaching Assistants, Pat Hutchings

RE:	Professional Society participation in TA Conference

_________________

I am writing on behalf of the planning team for The Sixth National
Conference on the Education and Employment of Graduate Teaching
Assistants.  As many of you will know, the conference is a biennial event,
sponsored by a number of national associations (including the National
Association of Graduate-Professional Students and bringing together key
constituents in the preparation of graduate students for their future
roles.  My purpose here is to ask for your assistance in bringing the
conference to the attention of one of those constituent groups, the
scholarly community you represent.

First, some basics:  The conference is Thursday, November 6th, through
Sunday, November 9th, at the Hyatt Regency in Minneapolis, MN.  It is hosted
this year by the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.  The enclosed
brochure/call for proposals will fill in details about where, when, and so
forth.

You'll also note from the brochure that the theme of this year's event is
"Changing Graduate Education," a focus which reflects the ways that issues
in the education and employment of graduate students have evolved over the
last decade or so.  Whereas in the early days of the conference, the focus
was primarily on "quality control" and "TA training," this year*s conference
is designed to explore much larger and more fundamental questions about the
character and reform of graduate education itself as related (for instance)
to changes in faculty roles and rewards, pressures for accountability,
funding patterns, new ideas about and emphasis on teaching and learning, and
the state of the academic job market.

Hoping (and indeed assuming) that these issues are "on the agenda" of
faculty leaders from your association, I am looking for your help in
three ways:

1) that you notify your members of the conference-- through newsletters,
listservs, websites or other communication channels (note that the
conference hasits own website at:  [http://www.umn.edu/ohr/taconference]);

2) that you pass along any thoughts or suggestions about the conference
program and how to make it most useful to faculty from your field;

3) that you think about attending the conference (or sending an appropriate
representative from your field), in which case I would also encourage you to
consider proposing a session in response to the enclosed call for proposals.


Note that the enclosed brochure does not include registration materials,
which will be available at a later date.  I will make sure that you receive
those materials when they are available.

Meanwhile, please be in touch in response to any and all of the items above.
You can reach me at the University of Wyoming, where I am spending this
academic year, by phone (307-766-4825), email (path@uwyo.edu) or US mail:

Pat Hutchings
Center for Teaching Excellence
PO Box 3334
University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY 82071

Thanks for your assistance.

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